Diane Arbus

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Harald Høffding

Reinhold Niebuhr

Robert Heaton, How sad should I be about ChatGPT?

Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

Andy Matuschak, In praise of the particular, and other lessons from 2023

Paul Ford, Why So Bad, AI Ads?

John L. Heilbron, Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction

Oscar Wilde, Intentions

Niels Bohr, Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics

Anthony Bourdain, One Day—and One Night—in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen | The New Yorker

Anthony Bourdain, One Day—and One Night—in the Kitchen at Les Halles

R. Barbour, Introducing Qualitative Research: A Student's Guide

Sam Seliger, “No Salt”

Terence McKenna, Dreaming Awake at the End of Time

Caleb Azumah Nelson, page 2, Open Water

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

Zadie Smith, NW

Viktor Lofgren, Less Coffee, Better Sleep

Mike Grindle, What to Do with My Blog When I’m Gone

Rachel Kroll, Two months of feed reader behavior analysis

Rachel Kroll, Feedback on feed stuff and those pesky blue screens

Milky Way Over Tunisia

Om Malik, Intermittent Social media fasting 

Robin Rendle, Design ain’t a democracy

Scott Aaronson, My “Never-Trump From Here to Eternity” FAQ

Robert Denerstein, Rapping for the Irish language

Om Malik, Field Notes. 08.04.2024 

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

Jake Seliger, How do you say goodbye?

Matt Webb, Hallucination should not be a dirty word

Lorin Hochstein, Efficiency and bad outcomes

Christoph Rauscher, The Long Hard Stupid Way

Christoph Rauscher, Sketchbooks, Cobble Stones, and Solitude

Christoph Rauscher, Easiness, Celebrities, and Another Round

Wouter Groeneveld, Introducing The New Brain Baking Theme

Christopher Butler, The Internet Isn't for Humans Anymore

Simon Willison, Language models on the command-line

Lea Verou, Inline conditionals in CSS?

14 Reasons Why I’m Childfree

Wouter Groeneveld, The Parent Trap

Jake Seliger, More isn’t always better: death and over-treatment as a downside of agenticness

Jake Seliger, More isn’t always better: death and over-treatment as a downside of agenticness

Jake Seliger, More isn’t always better: death and over-treatment as a downside of agenticness

Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit

Michael Levin and Rafael Yuste, How evolution ‘hacked’ its way to intelligence from the bottom up

Dessa

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

Venkatesh Rao, Imagination vs Creativity

Lewis Fry Richardson, Weather prediction by numerical process

Karma

Matt Webb, Karma as ancient progress studies

Alexander Obenauer , Noticing the problem with our operating systems

Alexander Obenauer, The Interfaces With Which We Think

Jane Friedman, Being a Very Online Advice-Giver Has Made My Writing Worse

Thomas Edison, Edison in His Laboratory

McKinley Valentine, Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

Daniel Quinn, foreword to Ishmael

Daniel Quinn, foreword to Ishmael

Truman Capote

Daniel Quinn, foreword to Ishmael

Mona Simpson (sister of Steve Jobs)

Frank Chimero, Big Ideas

Frank Chimero, Big Ideas

Eva Zeisel

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

Frank Chimero, Redesign: The Raccoon King of Garbage Mountain

possibly Saint Teresa of Avila

Margaret Mead

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

N. S. Lyons, Autonomy and the Automaton

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Thomas Frank, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation

Wikipedia, Dada

Chimera Linux

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

John Warner, Ideas Aren't Worth Anything

Thomas Mann, Tristan

Bentley Beetham

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

René Daumal, Mount Analogue

Pete Boardman, The Shining Mountain: Two Men on Changabang's West Wall

Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust

John Harlin

an unknown architect

Auden, September 1, 1939

Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Hubert L. Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, All Things Shining

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Pete Millspaugh, Things I found interesting in Bonnie Nardi’s “A Small Matter of Programming”

Lorin Hochstein, Green is the color of complacency

straybob, 400 Miles of Jordan Ep 3

Craig Mod, Continuous Uninterrupted Solo Walks

Sara Hendren, not that kind of constraint

Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Paul Holdengräber, Adam Phillips, The Art of Nonfiction No. 7

John Muir

Jared White, Why I’m Ready to Party Like It’s 1999…Again

Paul Graham, The Best Essay

Paul Graham, The Best Essay

Dan Luu, Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation

Publilius Syrus

Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic: Pluralistic is four; The Bezzle excerpt (Part III)

Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

John Gall, Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail

Ran Prieur, Feeling Good

Mike Grindle, Some Thoughts in Lieu of an Abandoned Post

Roger Ebert, Life Itself

Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations

Jacob Collier, On managing the complexity of virtual collaborations

Jamie Crisman, Getting Out, Getting Lost

Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Robin Berjon, Web Tiles

Jason Scott, Archiving in the Time of Streaming

Categories as taxonomy, tags as folksonomy

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World

Vaber

Google, Google Earth

G.K. Chesterton, The New Jersusalem

David Pierce, Who killed Google Reader?

Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Craig Mod & Dan Rubin, Koya Bound: Eight Days on the Kumano Kodo

N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface

Dramatic Identity

Nigel Calder

Giacomo Casanove

Helen Keller, Let Us Have Faith

Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

Werner Herzog

Bessie A. Stanley, What Constitutes Success?

Fire of Love

Nhat Hanh, How to Love

Not That Kind of Love

Dead Poets Society

Temple Grandin

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Richard Feynman, Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Daniel Lawrence Lu, DLLU

Richard Feynman, Feynman: The pleasure of Finding Things Out

smitty1e, Jokes are the unit tests of our understanding

D.H. Lawrence

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Ansel Adams

Wouter Groeneveld, Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs

When you have the right building in the wrong location

Jamie Zawinski, Technological Antisolutions

Arthur C. Train & Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth

Transclusion

Matt Webb, I wish my web server were in the corner of my room

Monsieur Lazhar

Tymeful

Knut Melvær, Thoughts On Markdown

Wikipedia, 2008 Universal Studios fire

Ryan J. A. Murhpy, When and how to publish notes: Publishing thinking effectively and efficiently

Kyle Neath, URL Design

Navalny

Atomic Design — Brad Frost

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

unknown

Temple Grandin

Merlin Mann, Merlin's Wisdom Project

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Mother Night

Kyle Aster, Toward a More Resilient Future

That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen

Shōtetsu, Snow in a Garden

Aaron Swartz, Release Late, Release Rarely

Maciej Cegłowski

unknown

Jason Scott, destruction

Ask Culture meets Guess Culture

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth

Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin

Jeanette Winterson, Jeanette Winterson: It is the Imagination that Counts

Ansel Adams

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Lawrence Pearsall Jacks

Rumi

I Am the Ghost Here

George Box (Statistician), Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building

D. W. Brogan, The American Character

Joseph Chamberlain

R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008

I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person

Susan Sontag, To Tell A Story

David Allen, Getting Things Done

Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science, Caltech commencement address

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lost Road and Other Writings

unknown, probably not Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker

The Count and His Cristos

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

god, apparently, Mattew 7:13–14

Genesis 4:12

Pyrrhonian Skepticism

Semantic linefeeds, a writing aid

Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents

Travel in the time of coronavirus

Hayao Miyazaki, 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki

A stubborn fool

Lamar Burgess, Minority Report

Maciej Cegłowski, The Website Obesity Crisis

Hooked on the surf

Notting quite like Notting Hill

Why is CSS such a poor language for layout?

Benjamin Whorf

A couple cool contemporary contributions to chaos

Your native language affects how you see this image

Egypt through the eyes of David Roberts

Princess Mononoke, my first Ghibli

What is Craig Mod doing?

An uncanny valley of speed

Richard O’Keefe

Vannevar Bush, As We May Think

Nassim Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

Forcing function

Pangram

Craig Mod on cropping

Te Araroa – The Long Pathway

Corpus

Commonplace book

Random access

Compound interest

Adriana Trigiani, All the Stars in the Heavens

Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities

When Alex Hope finds a Prime Minister's passport number

Independence for whom

Conceptual Iintegrity by Dorian Taylor

Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Taxonomies through the eyes of Dorian Taylor

Ichi-go ichi-e

unknown

David McCullough

unknown, A place for everything, everything in its place

Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD

Grady Booch, Architectural Mining: The Other Side of the MDD

Eberhard Rechtin, The Art of Systems Architecting (Second Edition)

Mae West

Pope Francis

Pope Francis, The Name of God Is Mercy

Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Grady Booch

Grady Booch

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